Cortically Mediated Quotes & Sayings

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification. — Donald Cram

We were not Germanizable. But our soil was." Emilia p11 — Ruta Sepetys

The waves, the girl in the rain, and that awful, blood-begotten stom. Blood and love and loss. — Terri Farley

Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times. — Sam Kean

Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not. — Jeremy Schoemaker